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Jerry Taylor joins us for a discussion on environmental protection and energy use.
Is economic growth incompatible with a clean planet?
Jerry Taylor is considered to be one of the most widely cited and influential critics of green energy and federal environmental policy.
Is economic growth incompatible with a clean planet? Doesn’t the government already do a good job of regulating pollution? How would markets do better?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Ronald Coase, The Problem of Social Cost (article)
Murray Rothbard, Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution (article)
Jerry Taylor is a vice president at the Cato Institute and is considered to be one of the most widely cited and influential critics of green energy and federal environmental policy.
Aaron Powell founded Libertarianism.org. He is now the host of (Re)Imagining Liberty, a podcast about the case for radical freedom.
Trevor Burrus was a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His research interests include constitutional law, civil and criminal law, legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy.
He is the editor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017). Burrus holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.